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Justice Department Charging Russian Spies and Criminal Hackers in Yahoo Intrusion (washingtonpost.com)
The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday, reports the Washington Post, the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal cyber charges ever against Russian government officials (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternate source). From the report: The indictments target two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB, and two hackers hired by the Russians. The charges include hacking, wire fraud, trade secret theft and economic espionage, according to officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the charges have not yet been announced. The indictments are part of the largest hacking case brought by the United States.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/15/0521225/hacking-victim-cant-sue-foreign-government-for-hacking-him-on-us-soil-says-court
Well, the Yahoo hack happened in 2014, and they're just now getting around to charging these Russian spies. So, you know, investigations such as this take a while to run.
Now, the Trump administration is almost certainly doing everything they can to slow-walk any investigation into the election, but that's not the same thing as no investigation happening.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Since the U.S. hacks 1,000s of computers (both foreign governments and individuals), does this mean any other country can now pass laws against hacking and immediately convict the U.S. for criminal behavior?
Sadly, it appears that Dear Leader Trump will suppress any investigation and attempt to find the truth about the election.
Were you expecting to read a daily status report about investigations into an attempted CIA coup d'etat in the free copy of USA Today in your hotel room? Because that's not how it works.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
My tin foil hat must be on too tight....CIA coup?
Right wing idiots and Russian collaborators may think it's a 'coup' for the CIA to record Russian spies who collaborated with the Trump campaign to hack our election, but that's not what a coup is. A coup is collaborating with a foreign government's spies in their hacks of your opponent, granting them policy changes as a reward. Examples: Ukraine policy reversal in RNC platform, and gutting of the State Department.
I'm sorry that your boy Donald Trump was committing treason with Russian spies, but the CIA's job is to protect us from Russian spies. That includes Russian spies who collude with a Presidential campaign to go on a Watergate style crime spree.
If Donald Trump didn't want the CIA to uncover obviously treasonous activities, he shouldn't have traded real estate industry bribes and hacking of his opponent's campaign for Russian control of his administration...
Has anybody told you today that you're a moron? Because they should have with that kind of rhetoric.
When Yahoo claimed they had been hacked by a foreign government organisation - rather than private hackers - I thought "well, they would claim that" because the big guys are pretty much unstoppable. This article is a claim that indictments may be about to happen, things are starting to become interesting.
Still, the US along with various allies are quite happy to cause problems in other countries. Even a smoking gun is not going to change anything apart from perceptions.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
One person did, but he's an abject retard so I didn't take it very seriously...
I guess if you keep sticking your head in the ground to avoid noticing your President's treasonous collaboration with a hostile foreign government's hacking of our campaign, eventually your brain just stops working.
Would a some Russian sponsored fake News which makes Donald Trump appear less like the puppet of a hostile foreign government make you feel better?
You mean Russian's now have all my offers from Dunham's, window replacement companies, "better" interest rate on loans, Olive Garden, etc. etc.????? What ever will I do?
Three stories down:
"Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court"
Well.. which is it?
They have charged Edward Snowden, as well.
How's that working out?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Why is Russian election hacking of so much interest now, I thought this was a thing since the 1940's. And while I'm glad it's a thing of national interest to more people, I feel that it will be soon forgotten when the right people are once again in power. Or has it not been a thing for the last 70 years and the wrong people were simply paranoid and crazy?
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Still waiting for proof of the Russian hacker meme that isn't some golden shower fan fiction.
"What is the maximum value of the universal-sandbox' irony-type ?"
Requiem for the American Dream
Yahoo! give GCHQ access to Yahoo system a long time ago. Yahoo messenger and Yahoo groups. Yahoo groups used to be the most monitored and the most often deleted. GCHQ used to run amok on Yahoo, sending people attachments and just really being annoying bastards. It went the same way as ICQ.
I have never used Twitter but they tell me that Twitter is going the same way.
hackers charge you!
They will be hunting for spies and terrorists while putting innocent people at risk only to find nothing or what we already knew about before the witch hunts. Kinda reminds me of what we did a decade ago, but it's cyber instead of sand and everyone is put at privacy and security risk. They'll find something stupid and make it a big deal to get the Wikileaks thing off their back.
Just a couple of stories down the page we see the title "Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court". Conveniently inconsistent.
So, you posted AC to try to "increase your numbers" but it's obvious from the way you structure your sentences that you're the same person. Desperation stinks?
It's obvious that I'm the same person, because I made it clear I'm the same person...
I'm not sure why that reeks of desperation when I was so transparent, and fully expected people to make the connection.
The reason I pointed as AC is that I have repeatedly been modded down for pointing out Donald Trump's obvious and well documented treasonous collaboration with Russia in their hack of our election, as well as the clear control that Russia exerts over Donald Trump and his administration.
I expect all of the comments I make about this topic to get modded down so I limit the amount of damage that moderators can do to my Karma.
This is a public service, but I only wish to risk 2 modpoints every time I bring up this vital national security crisis.
A couple of people can pull off an enormous hack like this, but they can't manage to do it without leaving electronic business cards, flags, "Go Putin!" t-shirts etc. behind? Bullshit.
The U.S. likes to paint the unrealistic image of the savvy Russian hacker who breaks in to every system, but who at the same time is like a stupid, bumbling clown. It simply doesn't hold up.
Looks like it's a variant of the old sending-money-home-to-the-relatives scam.
Moron alert -- he's out again.
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